Lady Gaga - Biography - IMDb Lady Gaga Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Trade Mark (10) | Trivia (55) | Personal Quotes (42) Overview (4) 5' 1" (1.55 m) Mini Bio (1) Lady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is an American songwriter, singer, actress, philanthropist, dancer and fashion designer. Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City, to Cynthia Louise (Bissett) and Joseph Anthony Germanotta, Jr., an internet entrepreneur. Her father is of Italian descent, and her mother is of half Italian and half French-Canadian, English, German, and Scottish ancestry. Gaga was able to sing and play the piano from a young age. She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart from age 11 where was bullied for her appearance (she was small and plumper than other girls with large front teeth) and eccentric habits. By the age of 14, Gaga was performing at open mike nights in clubs and bars.

By age 17, she had gained early admission to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to sharpening her songwriting skills, she composed essays and analytical papers on art, religion, social issues and politics. At the age of 19 Gaga withdrew from her studies and moved out of her parents' home in order to pursue a musical career. During this time she started a band which began to gain local attention. After a brief partnership with talent scout Rob Fusari, which resulted in the creation of her stage name, Gaga was signed to Def Jam Records in 2006; however she was dropped from the label after just three months. Devastated, Gaga returned home, and became increasingly experimental: fascinating herself with emerging neo-burlesque shows, go-go dancing at bars dressed in little more than a bikini in addition to experimenting with drugs. Gaga met performance artist Lady Starlight during this time; after a performance at Lollapalooza Festival in 2007 Gaga was signed by Vince Herbert to Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records.

Having served as an apprentice songwriter under an internship at Famous Music Publishing, which was later acquired by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Gaga subsequently struck a music publishing deal with Sony/ATV. As a result, she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears and labelmates New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and the Pussycat Dolls. At Interscope, singer-songwriter Akon recognized her vocal abilities when she sang a reference vocal for one of his tracks in studio; Akon then convinced Interscope-Geffen-A&M Chairman and CEO Jimmy Iovine to form a joint deal by having her also sign with his own label Kon Live, making her his "franchise player." In 2008 Gaga released her first album 'The Fame' to lukewarm radio play; Gaga toured around Europe and in gay clubs in the US to promote the album - however it was not until her first hit 'Just Dance' came to mainstream attention in 2009 that Gaga exploded onto the music scene.

Since then Gaga has gained numerous awards and nominations for a string of hits; her first album spawned several more smash hits ('Paparazzi' 'LoveGame' and 'Poker Face'); while touring the album Gaga wrote 'The Fame Monster', an EP examining the darker side to her new-found fame. The Fame Monster was released in 2009 and won multiple awards, spawning her most iconic single 'Bad Romance' as well as 'Telephone' and 'Alejandro'. During this time Gaga came under increased public and critical scrutiny for her eccentric and often bizarre style choices. Gaga embarked on her second tour, The Monster Ball; upon finishing in May 2011, the critically acclaimed and commercially accomplished tour ran for over one and a half years and grossed $227.4 million, making it one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time and the highest-grossing for a debut headlining artist. Concerts performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City were filmed for an HBO television special. The special accrued one of its five Emmy Award nominations and has since been released on DVD and Blu-ray.

In 2011 Gaga released her second full-length album 'Born this Way'; the album was received vastly more critically than her previous two for touching on themes of politics, sexuality, and religion. Despite this, the album's songs were praised critically, and Born This Way sold 1.108 million copies in its first week in the US, debuting atop the Billboard 200, and topping the charts in more than 20 other countries. In addition to exceeding 8 million copies in worldwide sales, Born This Way received 3 Grammy Award nominations, including her third consecutive for Album of the Year. In March 2012, Gaga was ranked fourth on Billboard's list of top moneymakers of 2011, grossing $25,353,039 dollars, which included sales from Born This Way and her Monster Ball Tour. At the end of April 2012, Gaga's Born This Way kicked off in Korea - the tour would last 2 years and take the singer to every continent of the globe.

However in February 2012 the tour was abruptly cancelled; Gaga had a labral tear in her right hip which she had been nursing secretly for several weeks in the hopes that she would be able to continue the tour. After a performance in Toronto left her unable to walk and in considerable pain, she was taken to hospital for surgery and the tour was cancelled. Through to Jan. 17, the tour had grossed $168.2 million and moved 1.6 million tickets to 85 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore, with the Asian, European, and South American legs already completed in 2012. The North American leg, which was to wrap the tour and was almost completely sold out, would have likely put the tour at more than $200 million gross, easily in the top 20 tours of all time and probably in the top 15, according to Billboard. As it stands, Gaga finished sixth among all touring artists in 2012, with a gross of $125 million and attendance of more than 1.1 million, according to Boxscore. Gaga wrote her third album, ARTPOP, released in 2013.

Gaga made her acting debut in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013), the sequel to his 2010 film Machete, and also appeared in Rodriguez's sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Georgina Bradbury Trade Mark (10) Often gives empowering speeches during shows to her fans about the importance of self-confidence and 'being whoever you want to be'. Constant reinvention of her appearance.

Futuristic, highly fashionable/controversial outfits She carries a glow-in-the-dark disco stick during performances Refers to all her fans as "Monsters" Often portrays herself as a rebel in her videos In her videos, she often ends up killing someone - usually her boyfriend Various colored wigs Elaborate sunglasses and high heels Trivia (55) Has 14 tattoos: a peace sign on her left wrist, "Little Monsters" on her left inner bicep, a Rainer Rilke quote on her left inner bicep, the death date of her aunt Joanne on her left inner bicep, "Tokyo Love" on her left shoulder blade, a heart with "Dad" on her left shoulder blade, daises on her left shoulder blade, a treble clef on her center lower back, flowers up her left side, a unicorn with "Born This Way" on her left thigh, the word "ARTPOP" on her left forearm, an anchor on the left side of her ribcage, a cherub on the back of her head and the word "Rio" on the back of her head. Her father is of Italian descent.

Her maternal grandfather had French-Canadian, English, German, and Scottish ancestry, and her maternal grandmother was of Italian descent. Go-go danced in bars until her musical career took off. Four hit albums have spawned multiple award-winning hits such as 'Poker Face' Bad Romance', 'Born This Way' and 'Applause'. Went to the same school with Paris Hilton . At seventeen, she was one of twenty people in the world to have gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her stage name, Lady Gaga, is a reference to the song "Radio Ga-Ga" by Queen . Interscope music executive Vincent Herbert hired her in January 2008 as a music writer. She states that she is "very into fashion" and that it is "everything". Her song "Boys, Boys, Boys" was inspired by Mötley Crüe 's hit "Girls, Girls, Girls". She learned how to play the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at 13, and began performing at open mic nights by the age of 14. Her parents are Joseph, an Internet entrepreneur, and Cynthia, a telecommunications assistant.

She makes mention of the band, The Killers , in her song "Boys, Boys, Boys". On February 20, 2009, she donated tickets and a meet and greet, for any show on her Fame Ball tour, in the US or Canada, to raise money for Odyssey Charter School and elementary schools in Los Angeles affected by budget cuts. Has a younger sister, Natalie Germanotta . Is a natural brunette. Attended Sacred Heart School, a private Catholic school in New York City. Her classmates included Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton Rothschild . Other former students include Joanna Philbin and J.J. Philbin . Bleached her hair blonde in light of the fact that she was being mistaken for Amy Winehouse by interviewers while trying to make it big. Has a contralto vocal range. Her song "Telephone" was originally written for Britney Spears 's sixth album Circus. However, after it failed to make the album's final track listing, Gaga recorded the song as a collaboration with 'Beyonce Knowles' for her second album, The Fame Monster.

(May 10, 2010) Made the cover of Time magazine's double issue - The 100 Most Influential People in the World - alongside Bill Clinton and Didier Drogba . In the magazine's "Artists" category (which she headed), the singer's tribute was written by Cyndi Lauper . Is good friends with Deepak Chopra and has stated he is one of the most influential people in her life because of the spiritual guidance he gives her. In high school, one of her nicknames was "The Germ". A staunch supporter of LGBT Rights. Her sister, Natalie Germanotta , once dressed as her for Halloween. Her album "Born This Way" (2011) sold over 1 million copies in the first week. Amazon sold 440,000 copies of the album in its first two days at a price of 99 cents (at a loss of over $3 million). This contributed to the album's 662,000 digital sales, the highest one-week digital total of all time. Her second album "Born This Way" (2011) is the seventh album to sell 1 million copies in 1 week.

Gaga is the 5th woman to sell 1 million album copies in a week, after Whitney Houston , Britney Spears , Norah Jones and Taylor Swift . Ranked #99 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women". Ranked #92 in the 2010 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women". Launched "Born This Way Foundation", a non-profit organization to help people, worldwide, develop a new standard of care towards one another [November 13, 2011]. [November 14, 2011] Fired her longtime creative director and choreographer, Laurieann Gibson . In a 2011 Billboard poll, Gaga was voted as having the Best Fashion for 2011 and was also voted as the Most Overrated artist of 2011. Her song "Born This Way" was voted as the 3rd Favorite Hot 100 No. 1 (16% of all votes), behind "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele (32% of all votes) and "Hold it Against Me" by Britney Spears (31% of all votes).

Gaga's album "Born This Way" was also voted as the 3rd Favorite No. 1 album for 2011 (17% of votes), behind "21" by 'Adele' (35% of votes) and "Femme Fatale" by Britney Spears (33% of votes). Sang "The Lady is a Tramp" with Tony Bennett on his compilation album "Duets II" (2011). Her father, Joe Germanotta, and Art Smith are co-owners of "Joanne Trattoria", a New York Italian restaurant [January 2012]. Voted #18 on Ask men's top 99 'most desirable' women of 2012 list. Got her middle name, Joanne, after her aunt. Her aunt Joanne died of lupus at age 19. Underwent successful hip surgery on February 20, 2013. Named the new face of "Polaroid". [January 2010] Set to make first theatrical debut in Machete Kills.

[January 2013] Ended her 2-year world tour early due to injury; is now recovering and focusing on her second studio album, ARTPOP [February 2012] Suffers from hair loss due to years of dyeing her hair. Quit drinking and smoking marijuana, having become addicted following a hip injury in 2013. Was engaged to Taylor Kinney [February 14, 2015 (Valentine's Day) - July 18, 2016]. Gaga's manager, without consulting her, denied permission to "Weird Al" Yankovic, when he asked for permission to parody her song "Born This Way". Gaga only discovered this when one of her close friends showed her the YouTube video of the parody Yankovic had just uploaded to his account, called "Perform This Way", after having gone viral via Twitter. Her manager forced Yankovic to go through (at his own expense) the process of writing, recording, mixing and mastering the song, all while Yankovic was on tour in Australia, prior to denying permission to him.

Yankovic felt that if he had to jump through all those hoops, it should still be heard, if not on his album, then online. When Gaga finished watching the video, she personally called Yankovic, and emphatically overruled her manager. Gaga stated that she was never told he had even reached out to her, and would have given him permission on the spot. She also said she was a huge fan of his, she loved what she had heard in the video he had uploaded and felt it was "very empowering" and "a rite of passage" to be parodied by Yankovic, and to release the song on his album as he originally planned. This came just in time, since pulling the parody would have meant delaying Yankovic's album by several weeks or months. Both Gaga and Yankovic agreed to donate proceeds and royalties from the parody to the Human Rights Campaign. Has an interest in belly dancing. Is a registered democrat. Is a practitioner of Capoeira, Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, Shaolin Kung-Fu, Krav Maga & Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Lady Gaga was considered for the role of "Selina Kyle" in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Lady Gaga’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm Biography This page has been locked by a moderator. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), who performs under the stage name Lady Gaga, is a singer, songwriter and musician from New York City, New York, United States. Before Gaga adopted her stage name she was in a band called Stefani Germanotta Band . She released her first EP, “ Red and Blue ", in early 2006. The following year, music producer Rob Fusari dubbed her Lady Gaga, inspired by the Queen song "Radio Gaga". After this she recorded her first two songs as Lady Gaga ( Fever and Wonderful ) on Def Jam records, but was later let go. She began her career as a songwriter for some of pop music's biggest stars, including Fergie , Pussycat Dolls , Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block , as well as American singer and producer Akon .

After Akon recognized that Gaga also had vocal talent, he signed her to a joint deal with his own label, Kon Live Distribution, and then she started to work on her own new material for her debut album. Gaga released " The Fame " in 2008, which she explained was "about how anyone can feel famous." To date, the album has spawned the international number one hit singles “ Just Dance " (nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 51st Grammy Awards) and " Poker Face . The Fame then went Diamond in February 2010, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She then continued to release a new album 1 year later, " The Fame Monster ", which she wasn't intending to make at first. She released “ Bad Romance " as the first single, and has been nominated for dozens of awards all over the world. After The Fame Monster was released she released two more singles " Telephone (feat. Beyoncé )" and " Alejandro ". She released " Dance in the Dark " as a promotional single, but only released it in Australia, New Zealand and France. She undertook a large scale tour since " The Fame Monster " was released, and referred to her shows as The Monster Ball.

Lady Gaga announced her new album name, " Born This Way " at the 2010 MTV VMAs and it was released on May 23, 2011 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. It was her second studio album and received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its range of different styles and her vocals. “ Born This Way ” received three Grammy Award nominations, including Lady Gaga’s third consecutive for Album of the Year. The accompanying tour, entitled “Born This Way Ball”, kicked off in April 2012 with over 100 shows scheduled worldwide. Due to a hip injury, Lady Gaga canceled the remainder of the tour in February 2013. On November 6, 2013, Lady Gaga released her third studio album entitled “ Artpop ”, with featured guest appearances from T.I. , Too Short , Twista and R. Kelly . “Artpop” is a synthpop album, infused with urban , R&B, techno , rock and electronic beats. The album received mixed reviews from critics with some praising Lady Gaga’s vocals, with others criticizing its perceived lack of maturity.

Following a 2-day release event – “ArtRave” – the album debuted at number 1 in the US, and charted in the top 10 in over 20 countries. Applause was serviced as the lead single from Artpop on August 12, 2013, and was a critical and commercial success, charting within the top ten of more than twenty countries worldwide, peaking at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The second single Do What U Want was released on October 21, and peaked at number 13 in the United States. It was followed by promotional singles Venus and Dope shortly before the album's release. The album later produced the single G.U.Y. Gaga promoted Artpop with several television appearances and performances, including her second Thanksgiving Day special, Lady Gaga and the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular. Version 60, edited by good_bone All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Don't want to see ads?

Subscribe now Share this artist: BIOGRAPHY: Lady Gaga Lifetime Lady Gaga has worked hard to get to the top, now there, she’s staying Lady Gaga was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta into a strict Catholic family on 28 March 1986 in New York. She began playing piano at the age of four and honed her formative skills while attending the private all-girls Roman Catholic school ‘Convent of the Sacred Heart’. She wrote her first ballad at the age of thirteen and from fourteen was performing at local open-mic nights. She also appeared in several school productions, such as ‘Guys and Dolls’ and ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.’ At fifteen she even had a small role in ‘The Sopranos’. Aged seventeen, after leaving high-school, she was encouraged by her mother to apply for the 'Collaborative Arts Project' in New York to study music -she was one of twenty students to gain early admission to the establishment. In her second year, she dropped out in order to focus on her music career, her father agreed to pay her rent for a year if she promised to return home if things didn’t go according to plan.

Gaga's first foray into the limelight occurred in summer 2005 when she recorded two songs with hip-hop artist Grandmaster Melle Mel for an audio book that accompanied a children's novel called ‘The Portal in the Park’. In September that year she established the Stefani Germanotta Band with some friends from her former university. Playing a mixture of self-penned tracks and covers of classic rock songs, SGB generated a small fan base at bars across New York. In 2006 Stefani worked with music producer Rob Fusari who’d chosen Stefani to front a new band, he also helped create her persona and, he claims, the stage name Lady Gaga. Their musical relationship took a while to become successful but in 2006, when Def Jam’s A&R man heard some of their electropop recordings, he signed Gaga to the label. The intention was to release an album in nine months' time but after just three the label dropped her. Devastated, Gaga returned home and submerged herself in the seedy nightlife of New York’s Lower East Side, she became a go-go dancer, experimented with drugs and alienated her once supportive family.

It was during this time that she met Lady Starlight and the pair began to perform together, they were invited to perform at 'Lollapalooza’ in 2007 and the show was a success, confirming to Gaga that her musical oeuvre, ostensibly, glam rock with a pop twist, was working. Later that year, Fusari encouraged Gaga to work with Streamline Records and she became a songwriter for Sony/ATV. After writing songs for the likes of Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls she signed to Cherrytree Records. In 2008 she moved to Los Angeles and released her debut album ‘The Fame’ on 19 August 2008. The ‘Fame Ball tour’ helped the album to sell but it wasn't until the lead single ‘Just Dance’ reached the international charts that she became a household name. In January 2009, it topped charts across the globe, the sale of her album went through the roof and ‘Just Dance’ earned her first Grammy nomination which became one of the world’s best-selling singles.

Her next song ‘Poker Face’ was even bigger selling 9.8 million copies and winning Best Dance Grammy at the 52nd edition of the awards, ‘The Fame’ won Best Dance/Electronica album. More accolades followed including Billboard's Rising Star title, three MTV VMA nominations and she took home the prize for Best New Artist for the video of her third single ‘Paparazzi’. In 2009 she realised her EP, ‘The Fame Monster’, the lead single ‘Bad Romance’ topped the charts in eighteen countries and won her two more Grammys. Her next single ‘Telephone’, featuring Beyonce Knowles, became her fourth UK number one single. Her following single ‘Alejandro’ was criticised for the accompanying video. ‘Telephone’ had been risqué but ‘Alejandro’ was criticised for being blasphemous, despite this (or because of it) she became the first musician to attract more than one billion views on YouTube. She also went on to win eight of its thirteen nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards to which she wore her now iconic meat dress.

Gaga’s second worldwide tour ‘The Monster Ball’, was one of the highest-grossing tours of all time and was followed by the release of her second album ‘Born This Way’ on 23 May 2011 to positive critical acclaim. It sold 1.108 million copies in its first week but the tour had to be cut short after Gaga damaged her hip. The subsequent singles, ‘Born this Way’ (the 1000th number one single in the history of the charts) ‘Judas’ -featuring another controversial video- and ‘The Edge of Glory’ did well in the charts but ‘Marry the Night’ and ‘You and I’ didn’t fair quite as well. Nonetheless, in the same year she was ranked as the second most played artist of the year. After taking a sabbatical, Lady Gaga released ‘ARTPOP’ in November 2013. It went on to become her second number one album, though not as critically well-received as her previous two efforts. The singles ‘Applause’, ‘Do What U Want’ and ‘G.U.Y’ released on Gaga’s 28th birthday have merely added to her impressive CV.

Gaga took a break from pop music after the release of 'ARTPOP', releasing a jazz album with Tony Bennett. 'Cheek to Cheek' gave her another Number 1 hit in the US, and landed in the Top 10 in the UK. She co-wrote and performed the song 'Till It Happens To You' for the documentary 'The Hunting Ground', a look at the handling of sexual assault in America's college campuses. The song was nominated for an Oscar in 2016, with Gaga performing an emotional rendition of the song at the ceremony, but lost out to Sam Smith's Bond track 'Writing On The Wall'. Her fifth album is due to be released some time in late 2016. She also delved deeper in to acting, with an appearance in the film Machete Kills. She appeared on the FX television series 'American Horror Story: Hotel' as the mysterious Countess – a role that landed her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries. Her achievements include six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards as well as a string of acting credits and a burgeoning portfolio of philanthropy and activism. Lady Gaga remains an irrepressible tour de force at the top of her game.

Lady Gaga Tells Barbara Walters She 'Felt Like a Freak' - ABC News ABC News How Stefani Germanotta Became Lady Gaga By BRAD LAROSA Email The sky's the limit for Lady Gaga -- the young, mysterious and daring pop star -- who's charted a record four No. 1 hits off her first album, "The Fame." With her outrageous outfits , sexually charged songs, and blood soaked performances, she has singlehandedly redefined just how far out "outlandish fashion" can be. Play null In an interview with Barbara Walters , Lady Gaga, 23, talked about her skyrocketing career, her family, and what she believes is the biggest misconception about her. "That I am artificial and attention-seeking, when the truth is that, every bit of me is ... devoted to love and art," Gaga told Walters. "I am a songwriter. I'm a performance artist. I'm a daughter and a sister. "I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans ... who feel just like I felt when I was younger. ... I felt like a freak," she said.

"I guess, what I'm trying to say is, I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel … that they can create their own space in the world." Play null Watch the Barbara Walters' interview on "20/20" Friday at 10 p.m. ET Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga grew up in an Italian family on New York City's Upper West Side. She learned to play the piano as a child and by age 13 started writing her own songs. "I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star," she said. "I was almost a monster in the way that I was fearless with my ambitions." Play null By age 18, she was performing in New York nightclubs, where friends gave her the nickname "Gaga." "I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical. ... So they said, you're Gaga," she told Walters. Two years later, she landed a record deal and has made her way to the top.

On New Year's Eve, she had the hottest ticket in America, selling out the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami with tables costing as much as $25,000 each. Lady Gaga on Sex, Sexuality SLIDESHOW: Lady Gaga Performs at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show With lyrics like "bluffing with my muffin" in her hit "Poker Face," Gaga has blurred the line when it comes to her sexuality. "I do like women," she told Walters. "I've only been in love with men. I've never been in love with a woman, but that's really what the song is all about, why when I was with my boyfriend, was I fantasizing about women. When asked if she had ever had sex with women, Gaga demurred, but then said: "I've certainly had sexual relationships with women." Play Germanotta | Gagapedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected.

This page concerns a member of the Germanotta family. Only general information is allowed on the page as to comply with the privacy rule on the Gagapedia. Esta é a página diz respeito a um membro da família Germanotta. Por favor, não adicionar nada além de informações gerais. Nós (o Gagapedia) querem respeitar a sua privacidade. Cette page concerne un membre de la famille Germanotta. Seule une information de type générale peut être inscrite dans la page en raison du règlement du Gagapedia sur la vie privée. The Germanotta/Bissett are Stefani 's family. Contents Lady Gaga | Gagapedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Main article: 1986–03 Gaga was raised Roman Catholic. From age eleven she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart , a private all-girls Roman Catholic school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She described her academic life in high school as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit insecure": "I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down.

I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak. Gaga began playing the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at thirteen, and started to perform at open mike nights by the age of fourteen. She performed lead roles in high school productions, including "Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". She also appeared in a very small role as a mischievous classmate in the television drama series The Sopranos in a 2001 episode titled "The Telltale Moozadell" and auditioned for New York shows without success. She sang in a classic-rock cover band, Mackin Pulsifer , during her freshman year of high school. The band did covers of Led Zeppelin's songs along with Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane. 2004–05: Career beginnings Main articles: 2004, 2005 After high school, her mother encouraged her to apply for the Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21), a musical theatre training conservatory at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

By age seventeen, after becoming one of twenty students to gain early admission, she lived in an NYU dorm on 11th Street. In addition to sharpening her songwriting skills, she composed essays and analytical papers on art, religion, social issues and politics, including a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst. She also tried won the part of an unsuspecting diner customer for MTV 's Boiling Points, a prank reality television show. In 2005 , Gaga withdrew from CAP21 at 19, in the second semester of her sophomore year, deciding to focus on her musical career. Her father agreed to pay her rent for a year, on the condition that she re-enroll at Tisch if unsuccessful. "I left my entire family, got the cheapest apartment I could find, and ate shit until somebody would listen," she remembers. Settled in a small apartment on Rivington Street towards the summer of 2005, Gaga recorded a couple of songs with hip-hop singer Grandmaster Melle Mel, for an audio book accompanying the children's book The Portal in the Park, by Cricket Casey.

At The Bitter End ( Jan 20 , 2006 ) She also began a band called the Stefani Germanotta Band ( SGBand ) with some friends from NYU – guitarist Calvin Pia, bassist Eli Silverman, drummer Alex Beckham and booking manager Frank Fredericks – in September of that year. The band played a mixture of songs: some self-penned alongside classic rock numbers like Led Zeppelin's " D'yer Mak'er ". Playing in bars like the Greenwich Village's The Bitter End and the Lower East Side's the Mercury Lounge, the band developed a small fan base and caught the eye of music producer Joe Vulpis. Soon after arranging time in Vulpis' studio in the months that followed, SGBand were selling their extended plays Words and Red and Blue (both 2005) at gigs around New York while becoming a local fixture of the downtown Lower East Side club scene.

2006–07: Artistic development Main articles: 2006, 2007 SGBand reached their career peak at the 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at The Cutting Room in June where Wendy Starland, a musician, appeared as a talent scout for music producer Rob Fusari . Starland informed Fusari – who was searching for a female singer to front a new band – of Gaga's ability and contacted her. With SGBand disbanded, Gaga traveled daily to New Jersey to work on songs she had written and compose new material with the music producer. While in collaboration, Fusari compared some of her vocal harmonies to those of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen. It was Fusari who helped create the moniker Gaga after the Queen song " Radio Ga Ga ". Gaga was in the process of trying to come up with a stage name when she received a text message from Fusari that read "Lady Gaga." She texted back, "That's it," and declared, "Don't ever call me Stefani again.

Germanotta and Rob Fusari at Recording Studio ( Nov 4 , 2006 ) Although the musical relationship between Fusari and Gaga was unsuccessful at first, the pair soon set up a company titled Team Love Child in which they recorded and produced electropop tracks and sent them to music industry bosses. Joshua Sarubin, the head of A&R at Def Jam Recordings, responded positively and vied for the record company to take a chance on her "unusual and provocative" performance. After having his boss Antonio "L.A." Reid in agreement, Gaga was signed to Def Jam in September 2006 with the intention of having an album ready in nine months. However, she was dropped by the label after only three months – an unfortunate period of her life that would later inspire her treatment for the music video for her 2011 single " Marry the Night ". Devastated, Gaga returned to the solace of the family home for Christmas and the nightlife culture of the Lower East Side.

Lady Gaga | Disney Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [Source] Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28 , 1986 ), known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, activist, businesswoman, fashion designer, actress and philanthropist who along with Elton John contributed the song " Hello, Hello " in the 2011 Touchstone Pictures film Gnomeo & Juliet . She also appeared in the 2012 Disney animated short Electric Holiday . She has recently recorded a holiday special with the Muppets , which was aired in 2013 , and made a cameo appearance in Muppets Most Wanted with Tony Bennett . She took Kermit the Frog as her date to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In an interview with Perez Hilton, Miss Piggy dismissed the concept of them dating, saying that "No, no I don’t talk about lies. I talk about truth." She also made headlines wearing a top made entirely of plush Kermit the Frogs by Jean Charles de Castelbajac on German television.

She wore the outfit as a statement against wearing fur as it "looked like a bunch of dead Muppets". Jason Segel had written a cameo for her in The Muppets , but she does not appear in the finished movie. She also made a cameo in the Phineas and Ferb episode, " Great Balls of Water ". It seems that either she never filmed a scene, or her scene was filmed, but cut (like many other cameos). On March 28, 2011, Gaga's 25th birthday, Ellen DeGeneres called the artist from her daily talk show The Ellen Degeneres Show to wish her a happy birthday. During the call, Ellen presented a birthday cake to the singer, commemorating a number of famous outfits that the artist wore throughout her young career, including a Kermit the Frog face, facing the audience. She was mentioned in the Hannah Montana episode Hannah's Gonna Get This and the Good Luck Charlie episode The Break Up, the Shake It Up episode Start It Up, an episode of Mighty Med and the Stuck in the Middle episodes Stuck with Mom's New Friend and Stuck in Lockdown. Trivia Gaga is a huge fan of the Disney Princesses .

Some of her fashion sense is inspired by the franchise.

Question: Under what name does Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta perform?
Answer: Lady Gaga